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Melody Su continues her strong medical robotics research connections with UW, RIT, JHU and Trinity College. With the recent renovation completion of her new Intelligent Medical Robotics (IMeRo) research lab, she recruited eight Mount Holyoke research students to participate in her ongoing medical robotics research projects.


The Classical Association of New England (CANE) honored Geoff Sumi with its Barlow-Beach Distinguished Service Award for 鈥渄istinguished service to CANE and to classics in New England.鈥 Geoff received the award at the March 2023 CANE Annual Meeting.


Svaldi, M. (2024) Presented: A Small Cup of Coffee with a Big Impact: the Interconnection between Creativity, Sociality, Sustainability, and Art in the Coffee Industry, MAFLA-Massachusetts Foreign Language Association, October 24-26, 2024


Svaldi, M. (2023) Presenting at the MAFLA (Massachusetts Association Foreign Languages) a paper "L鈥檌ncanto della cultura italiana: Teaching Italian Language and Culture through Food, Design, Sustainability and Urban Planning", October 26-28, 2023


Svaldi, M. (2021) Presented "Immersive Teaching of Italian: Transforming a Challenge Into a Resource" at the virtual ACTFL Convention鈥 American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages, 19-21 November 2021.


Ombretta Frau and Morena Svaldi held a workshop for teachers at the NEMLA conference in Springfield on October 25, 2019. The title of the workshop was "Learn In-Context Around Campus.鈥


Presented her research on Teaching Italian in Higher Education: Assessment, Planning & Retention at the ACTFL Convention鈥揂merican Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages. Washington, DC, November 22-24, 2019.


Sabra Thorner hosted "Ancestral Memories: Artists in Conversation" at the 麻豆传媒高清 Art Museum on April 7, 2022.  This event featured five Indigenous Australian artists-in-residence as part of Spring 2022 Decolonizing Museums course (Anthropology 316).


Ombretta Frau and Sabra Thorner led a gallery talk in the Mount Holyoke Art Museum on 鈥淭he Afterlives of Objects鈥 on November 7, 2019.


Served as the stage director for the World Premiere of Mystery of the Missing Music: A Musicological Whodunit with the Pioneer Valley Symphony, which performed on April 8 and 10, 2021.